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say it: PIG-muhnt
pigment is a noun and verb meaning "dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)". It is pronounced /ˈpɪɡmənt/ — PIG-muhnt. It carries 5 recorded senses.
dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)
any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color
a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating
“artists use `paint' and `pigment' interchangeably”
acquire pigment; become colored or imbued
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pigment come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.